This is an analysis of Morton by James Whitcomb Riley.
The warm pulse of the nation has grown chill;
The muffled heart of Freedom, like a knell,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc adad cXcb efef eeee dddX dgdg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0110010111 0101010101 1100111100 1100101 11010100101 0101010101 1101010111 100101 11010111001 11010010101 1101010101 010101 1101010101 0101010100 01010010101 010101 0101011101 110101001001 1101110001 0101011 1111000101 11010101001 1101010101 110001 1101110101 11011101100 1101111101 111000 1111010101 0101010111 1101110100 010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
of, with, and
Anaphora
the, with
